Swing Voters Essay

Sometimes who lacks a strong affiliation with a particular political party is called a swing voter. The voter’s behavior is not easy to predict in an election. Party lines may be cross by the voter. Many political parties or campaign try to win the heads and minds of swing voters, and make a hope to win the election. Swing voters play a vital role in election. Sometimes it is because so confusing for political campaigns because swing voters are undecided voters, and it is a fact that swing voters are really undecided voters. A voter who is ensuring about how they plan to vote in the election are undecided voters. There are many voters who do not have established their own personal political philosophy, and they are new

voters which we call them undecided voters.
Swing voters have lack of willingness to commit for a particular party.

Some voters may be conservative democrats, who may vote republican if they don’t like candidate of democratic philosophy. Swing voters can be found in every party but if they don’t like the candidate of that party, they may vote other candidate of other party. Swing voters may be different by race, socio-economic class and gender in politics. So political parties many times focus on blocks of swing voters in socio-economic classes by hoping to expand their vote bank. Here, to win the swing vote is a successful political campaign.

Swing voters also help the candidate for winning the election. When the candidate wins by getting votes of the swing voters, it indicates that the candidate is so strong, flexible and he has a valuable asset for his party, it is a kind of great energy because to identify the swing voter and try to secure it, try to fend in the political party for in election is really great job for that party or for

candidate.
In the late 1960s vice president Spiro Agnew stated about the swing voters as the silent majority. Richard Scammon and Ben Wattenberg gave characteristics of swing voters that they were unyoung, unpoor, and unblack. Some assumptions about the swing voters are that swing voters that swing voters swing elections, that the votes of the swing voters decide who will win the presidential elections. This does not mean that most or even a majority of swing voters vote for the winning candidate or a majority of swing votes must be required to win candidate. There may be possibly a large and activated base vote to win presidential elections and only a small quantity of swing votes.
Status of the swing voter is independent in the election of the particular candidates.

Swing voter is also called independent. Linda Killian, in her article about swing voters stated that swing voters are real which she called independent, may decide who wins the elections. They hate attack and want change but they also believed that American political system is rigged. Again she said that independent voters may be our best hope to fix Washington.

Over the last past years, the number of well informed independent who vote regularly has been steadily rising, even as their dissatisfaction for both the parties has increased which results in volatile and whipsaw elections.

In New Jersey and Massachusetts, there are a majority of registered voters who are independent. In 2008, Barak Obama won 52 percent of independent voters, but in 2012 he won only 45 percent of the independent voters although 56 percent of self described moderates (including moderate democrats) voted for him. (www.thedailybeast.com).

Swing voters may cite from one party to another but many swing voters shief preference from election to election. Swing voters care more about the deficit than democratic voter have. They also care about the environment than

republican.
Swing voters are less interested and less informed in parties than none swing voters. Non swing voters approximately 45 percent on average are very interested in the current campaign. Here 29 percent swing voters are interested. This gap is so near over which we measure on general political interest. 36 percent of non swing voters claim to follow government and public affairs as against 29 percent of swing voters.
According to interviewers, 42 percent of swing voters have a very high level of political information while 52 percent of non swing voters were so rated. The group which we call swing voters is represented as women, the young and the elderly. According to mayor swing voter- a type of voter who can go either way and is not so solidly committed to one candidate or the other as to make all efforts at persuation futile.(www.books.google.co.in)
There are three worldviews about swing voters, these three worldviews can be classified as
1) the media entertainment view
2) the academic view
3) the campaign strategist view
Swing voters include moderate, independent leaning republican, liberal and pure independents. From election to election these voters swing back and forth between the two parties. A swing voter who supports the candidate almost wins the election.
In 1988, the republican candidate, George W Bush got large majority of swing votes over his rival and won an easy victory in the election. The quintessential swing voters are the older women.
There is always a question about a qualitative vote than established parties and their development. Unfortunately, we see there is always advertising, slogan, sound bites and information on the election time to get vote. But voter should merge from the voting booth in which they should be satisfied fore casting a leeisive vote instead of doubts for giving vote.